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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: In defence of rhetoric
  title info:
    title: In defense of rhetoric
  name:
    name part: Vickers, Brian.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Clarendon Press
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 1988
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xi, 508 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: A spirited effort to restore the importance of rhetoric, this book examines its early development in the classical era, its triumph during the Renaissance, and its subsequent decline. While acknowledging rhetoric's general loss of prestige, the author asserts its value in modern times as an indispensable vehicle for style and thought in the work of Joyce, Orwell, Jarrell, and others, and concludes by surveying rhetoric's fragmentation and misapplication in the current critical theories of such thinkers as Jakobson and de Man.
  table of contents: An outline of classical rhetoric -- Rhetoric and life -- The major texts -- The main processes of rhetoric -- The three genres -- The stages of composition -- The parts of a speech -- The orator's three duties -- The three styles -- Plato's attack on rhetoric -- Territorial disputes: philosophy versus rhetoric -- Responses to Plato -- The triumph of rhetoric -- The revenge of philosophy -- Medieval fragmentation -- Renaissance reintegration -- The expressive function of rhetorical figures -- Rhetoric and the sister arts -- Rhetoric and the modern novel -- Epilogue: the future of rhetoric.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Brian Vickers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 481-490) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Rhetoric
  subject:
    topic: Rhétorique
  subject:
    topic: rhetoric (discipline)
  subject:
    topic: Rhetoric
  classification: PN175
  classification: 808
  classification: LIT2020
  classification: 17.62
  classification: 17.77
  classification: 18.00
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    identifier: (DLC) 87026222
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  identifier: 9780198128373
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  identifier: 0198117914
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  record info:
    record content source: Nz
    record creation date: 110329
    record change date: 20260318190127.9
    record identifier: in00005707784
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng